Sunday 17th August 2025

Culture

Beyond the binary: Leigh Bowery’s radical individuality

Tate Modern's "Leigh Bowery!" refuses easy categorisation—much like its subject A fashion student from Sunshine, Melbourne, rocks up to London in 1980, writes 'wear makeup everyday' on his New Year's...

St Anne’s goes All-Steinway: A purposeful and bold commitment to music

In a move that lives up to its motto of ‘Consulto et Audacter’ (purposefully...

Just like the movies: An American’s notes on her Oxford year

Oxford occupies a mystical, almost fantastical place within the American psyche – so much...

Reading Oxford books in Oxford

For those who have not even set foot in Oxford, the city still lives...

Poetry Bites: HT16 week 4

Steve Wright enjoys the British weather

Poetry Bites: HT16 week 3

Ben Ray goes to Cornmarket Street

Poetry Bites: HT16 week 2

Mary Ann Clark thinks about the concept of home, looking back and the prospect of arrival

Warhol in fresh light

Surya Bowyer reviews the Ashmolean’s Andy Warhol exhibition.

Pyrotechnics, Smoke and Mirrors

Matt Roberts is exciting for a Phantom of the Opera packed full of wizardry

William Shakespeare and the year of Lear

Timothy Wade finds James Shapiro overestimates the Bard

Is This Art? The X Factor

With the definition of art increasingly unclear, the Cherwell Art & Books team are on a mission to decide what art is. This week Charlie Willis strays into the realms of performance art and takes on the X factor

Profile: Katie Hopkins

Akshay Bilolikar discusses Oxford, offensiveness and the Oscars with Katie Hopkins

Rewind: Ezra Pound

Bex Watson rewinds to Ezra Pound and is a tad guilty for liking him so much

Culture Corner: The Lobster

Rachael Kitson enjoys the squeaky clean cuteness of forbidden love

Slang: social ill or work of art?

Sarah Lynch scours away our inhibitions about the underside of language.

The Farm and the Container Store

Lael Hines invokes Christmas trees, containers and metal rods to create an alternative short story

A disturbing hymn for your weekend

Simran Uppal on the connotations of Coldplay's new music video

No matter the venue,“I just like to play”

Ellen Peirson-Hagger talks to folk singer Ryley Walker

Curating Oxford’s best musicians

The founders of Vulture Sessions discuss their plans for the future with Sophie Jordan

Review: Public Memory — Wuthering Drum

Ellen Peirson-Hagger is seduced by Public Memory's gritty electronica album

An odorous tone of graveness

Surya Bowyer has some qualms about the O'Reilly's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Review: The Fusion Project

Nihaar Shah is impressed by the virtuosity and skill of The Fusion Project

Interview: Amadeus

Alec Fullerton speaks to Lata Nobes, Artistic Director of Amadeus

Review: Constellations

Ellie Siora reflects on two actors and an infinity of loves

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